Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
By: Sigrid Undset
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—th…
Want to Read $ 9.99"God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed."-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
"God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed."-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
"And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a good thing that it was so good to live—for the others, for all who had not undone themselves. And when at that moment she felt a violent quickening of the child within her, her own heart seemed to stir and answer it—"No, no, I no longer wish you ill..."-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
"And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a good thing that it was so good to live—for the others, for all who had not undone themselves. And when at that moment she felt a violent quickening of the child within her, her own heart seemed to stir and answer it—"No, no, I no longer wish you ill..."-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
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1. The Soul of The Apostolate
By: Jean-Baptiste Chautard , Jean-Baptiste Chautard O.C.S.O
4.55
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
El lector encontrará en el libro una gran la vida de un cristiano no tiene sentido si no cumple el… read more
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2. The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)
By: Madeleine L'Engle
4.16
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more abou… read more
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"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)
"One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the what ifs come to me."-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)
"I tell a friend that I hope for Mother's death, and he is shocked; he sees it as a failure in my love toward her. Perhaps it is. I don't know."-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)
"He is : frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to fa…"-Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, #2)
3. Four Quartets
By: T.S. Eliot
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more
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4. Lykke-Per
By: Henrik Pontoppidan
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Per Sidenius vokser op pa en ostjysk praestegard under en streng og pietistisk fader. Faderens krav… read more
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5. In This House of Brede
By: Rumer Godden
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot… read more
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6. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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7. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated
By: Pope Benedict XVI , Pope John Paul II , Catholic Church , United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
4.50
Format: 846 pages, Paperback
Over 3 million copies sold! Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - th… read more
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" Man and woman were made “for each other"-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated
"The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship."-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated
"The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life."-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated
"When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will be complete"-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated
8. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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9. Laurus
By: None , Lisa Hayden
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more
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10. Interior Freedom
By: Jacques Philippe , None
4.71
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Interior Freedom leads one to discover that even in the most difficult circumstances we possess wit… read more
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"Ultimately, we can really forgive people only because Christ rose from the dead; his Resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure every wrong and every hurt."-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"Te doy gracias, Dios mío, por todo mi pasado; creo firmemente que, de cuanto he vivido, Tú podrás sacar un bien; no quiero tener ningún pesar y desde hoy me decido a recomenzar desde cero con exactam…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"No esperamos que Dios nos haga vivir en plenitud y creamos identidad artificial: el orgullo. O, entre personas de buena voluntad, nos gustaría amar, ser generosos y entregarnos, pero nos vemos atenaz…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
"Para que nuestra voluntad sea fuerte y dispuesta, necesita verse alimentada por el deseo. Y ese deseo no puede ser poderoso si lo que se desea no se percibe como posible y accesible; porque, si nos r…"-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
11. Be Healed: A Guide to Encountering the Powerful Love of Jesus in Your Life
By: Bob Schuchts , Mark Toups
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of beloved spiritual teachers like Francis MacNutt and Michael Scanlan, Be Healed … read more
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12. Summer Lightning
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoir--a tell-all that could destroy po… read more
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13. The Ghost Keeper
By: Natalie Morrill
3.74
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more
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14. Charis in the World of Wonders
By: Marly Youmans
3.99
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doo… read more
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15. This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
By: Claire Dwyer
4.57
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
Decades before Vatican II called for the sanctification of the laity, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity … read more
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"It was in part her growing faith that made even the stuff of the earth seem lovelier. Prayer makes us more alive. It makes life richer, color more vivid, sounds clear, light brighter, joy deeper, sor…"-Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
16. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
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- scandinavian literature
"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
17. The Bell in the Lake (Hekne, #1)
By: Lars Mytting
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The engrossing epic novel—a #1 bestseller in Norway-of a young woman whose fate plays out against h… read more
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"Nuovargį ištvęrti lengviau nei sielvartą."-Lars Mytting, The Bell in the Lake (Hekne, #1)
18. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
19. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
20. Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Live Vol. 3 - Housekeeping (Summa Domestica, #3)
By: Leila Lawler
4.61
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
Most wives possess a deep, existential intuition that they bear primary responsibility for creating… read more
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21. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
22. Works of Mercy
By: Sally Thomas
4.45
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Kirsty Sain, aging housekeeper for the newly arrived young priest, assumes that despite this person… read more
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23. Cold Victory
By: Karl Marlantes
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in whic… read more
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24. The Shakespeare Requirement
By: Julie Schumacher
3.73
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post notable book of the year. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hi… read more
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"Still, all was quiet downstairs…and now the concept of leaving his bed had sent an urgent body-gram to his bladder, which over the years had become a thimble-sized organ with an impetuous streak."-Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement
"Where to start, Fitger thought. The department was a funhouse of dysfunctional characters. Academia was, traditionally, a refuge for the poorly socialized and the obsessive; but English, at Payne, ha…"-Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement
"She drained the pasta and looked out the window over the sink. In the middle of the street, paying no attention whatsoever to oncoming cars, two little boys were jousting with hockey sticks while rid…"-Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement
25. Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
By: Catherine Pakaluk
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women. In the midst of a historic "birth d… read more
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26. Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
By: Nicola Griffith
4.48
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
In the much anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seven… read more
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"I hate thorns,"-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
"You are Christian?"-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
"Cadwallon is like a hawk,"-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
"If people felt safe, they stayed."-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)
27. The Minister's Restoration
By: George MacDonald
4.26
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
The Minister's Restoration (MacDonald / Phillips series) [paperback] MacDonald, George,Phillips, Mi… read more
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"He could not pray without words, and not a word would come!"-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration
"The praise of men, and the love of that praise, had now restored him to his own good graces."-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration
"And now, in love with himself, and so shut out from the salvation of love to another, he was specially in danger of falling in love with any woman’s admiration."-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration
"It is strange, but so it is, that many a man never sees himself until he becomes aware of the eyes of other men fixed upon him; they seeing him, and he knowing that they see him, then first, even to …"-George MacDonald, The Minister's Restoration
28. Ædnan
By: Linnea Axelsson
4.23
Format: 762 pages, Hardcover
Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more
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29. Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
By: Sigrid Undset
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—th… read more
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"God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that who so is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed."-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
"And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a go…"-Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows (Volume 1)
30. The Sabbatical: A Novel
By: Michael D. O'Brien
4.21
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Owen Whitfield is the elderly Oxford professor of history who first appeared in Michael O''Brie… read more
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